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I always changed my son as soon as I smelled pee and he wore disposables. I think it's gross to let them sit in their own pee/poop, no matter how little. I would go in my son's room a few times a night when he was a baby and I would change him if he was wet.

Somewhat, but not that much of a difference. Maybe over a 24 hour time period my 10 month old uses 4 more than if he was in disposable. At night, for the first round of sleep I use a nighttime disposable one though. Because he can sleep up to 7 hours. And in the heavy wetter cloth ones he just pees out. But after that he gets back into the cloth ones.

I didn't notice that much of a difference, but I changed my daughter within a few minutes of her peeing or pooping unless we were in the car and I couldn't right away. My daughter only had like one or two leaks at night from cloth, too. She had more from disposables, but I'm sure it's different for every baby and every kind of diaper.

I only used cloth diapers with my both my children so I don't really know the difference, however I would say anytime I could smell pee they were changed. I may have checked more frequently only because I didn't want them to get a rash for sitting too long in a wet diaper.